This is how chickens come home to roost
The Israel/Palestine issue threatens to splinter the Democratic Party
The phrase “chickens coming home to roost” has been around—in one form or another—for a long time, going back to at least the time Chaucer. And the meaning of the phrase is simple: it used to note when a bad or foolish decision in the past has negative consequences in the present. Perhaps most famously, it was used by Malcolm X in reference to JFK’s ass…
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